2020

SZ0695 : West Howe: Moorside Road

taken 5 years ago, near to Kinson, Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole, England

West Howe: Moorside Road
West Howe: Moorside Road
Looking at some of the semi-detached houses on this road which marks the southeastern edge of the large 1950s West Howe council estate.

The sign dates from around 1999/2000 and is one of the first to include the borough logo. It morphed from this version, one size regardless of the name length, to a similar design but with centred text, to the commonplace version with blue edges and with slightly less emboldened typeface.

This is photo no.283 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project:
See Link for the complete set of photos.
My coronavirus lockdown walking project :: SZ0795

In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, on 23 March 2020 the government announced a lockdown which effectively confined people to their homes, apart from essential journeys which included vital shopping, to help vulnerable people, and one period of exercise per day.

There was speculation about whether driving to a place of exercise, such as a beauty spot, was acceptable and guidelines were quickly made, that exercise should take place locally and direct from home.

So I drew a 2km radius around my home on a map and set out to walk along, across or past every named street and footpath within this circle.

I found that there are 451 such roads/paths, not including roads whose postal address is part of another road already included (such as some Courts, Terraces and Mews).

I undertook to take a photo of a sign for each one, mainly with some context of the road itself. They can all be viewed, along with my 2km map, here: Link


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This photo is linked from: Articles: · My 2020 Coronavirus Lockdown walking project Automatic Clusters: · Centre [21] · Council Houses [13] · Marks [4] ·
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SZ0695, 155 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Chris Downer   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 12 April, 2020   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 21 January, 2022
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 068 953 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:45.4354N 1:54.2382W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SZ 068 952
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Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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